[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1077821: node-elliptic: CVE-2024-42459 CVE-2024-42460 CVE-2024-42461

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: node-elliptic
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerabilities were published for node-elliptic.

CVE-2024-42459[0]:
| In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, EDDSA signature
| malleability occurs because there is a missing signature length
| check, and thus zero-valued bytes can be removed or appended.

CVE-2024-42460[1]:
| In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature
| malleability occurs because there is a missing check for whether the
| leading bit of r and s is zero.

CVE-2024-42461[2]:
| In the Elliptic package 6.5.6 for Node.js, ECDSA signature
| malleability occurs because BER-encoded signatures are allowed.

All addressed by https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/317

If you fix the vulnerabilities please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) ids in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-42459
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42459
[1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-42460
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42460
[2] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-42461
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42461

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.